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To: cosmicforce who wrote (224144)	5/14/2013 7:36:38 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540781

Then you tell me how we keep the planet from global warming, intolerable pollution, exhaustion of resources and population increase sustainability? << <Plato> His Republic? A world of philosopher kings?>> Yeah, I know, and we better get their quickly!

To: cosmicforce who wrote (224144)	5/14/2013 7:52:17 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540781

That sorta works out to communism being ahead of its time I agree that the Scandinavian models have a lot going for them, but their socialistic style shares some conceptual elements with Marx You probably need to toss Marx and Ayn Rand into a slow cooker for a century and implement some elements of both to have an optimal system, which Scandinavia is approaching Seems to me there is an arc of civilization that will eventually accommodate the advantages of all of these systems of governance ...and in our current guise we are seriously resisting the civilizing forces that are emerging in the developed world But that is because of the greed based system that currently dominates our policy making mechanisms The Republican concepts that obstinately resist progress of any form will eventually break like an overstressed dam It is too bad that we couldn't implement the changes in a measured way, but revolutions are effective also